Interesting Chinese character story

1, the only empress named Wu Zetian in the history of China.

Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress in China's history, wanted to give herself a very suitable name after she ascended the throne. China wants a name to express her uniqueness and show her talent.

But what words can you use to make yourself look different? If you use some familiar Chinese characters, it will not be reflected, so Wu Zetian wants to create a word that she has never written before, so there will definitely be no repetition.

It is said that there was a feudal superstition about the sun and the moon at that time. Everyone thought that the sun and the moon were sacred. Wu Zetian compared herself to the sun and the moon, and wanted to hang herself in the sky forever like the sun and the moon, so she had this sentence, the sun and the moon are above the sky: baa.

W: Zhao

The meaning of the word: it probably means that the sun and the moon are in the sky, bright and wide.

2. Interesting stories about "bamboo pole" and "pig liver"

The new magistrate is from Shandong. He said to the master, "buy me two bamboo poles."

I found out that the "bamboo pole" with Shandong accent was "pig liver", so I quickly agreed and ran to the butcher's shop and said, "Master Xinxian wants to buy two pig livers. Be smart!"

The shopkeeper, a clever man, immediately cut off two pieces of pig liver and presented a pair of pig ears.

Out of the butcher's shop, the master thought, "My master told me to buy pig liver, and this pig ear is of course mine …" So he wrapped the hunting ear and stuffed it into his pocket. Go back to the county government and report to the magistrate: "Report back to Grandpa, I bought pig liver!" "

The magistrate was very angry when he saw that the master had bought pig liver, and said, "Where are your ears!" " Hearing this, the master turned pale with fear and quickly replied, "Ear … Ear … here … in my … pocket!" "

3. The short story brought by the word "heavenly heart takes rice"

On one occasion, the Xiongnu in the north wanted to attack the Central Plains, and sent someone to send a "battle table" first.

When the emperor opened it, it turned out to be "heavenly heart takes rice".

None of the ministers of the Qing Dynasty solved the mystery.

The emperor couldn't take it easy, so he had to post a list to recruit talents.

At this time, an official named He Tang in the palace said that there was a plan to withdraw troops, and the emperor urgently declared He Tang to go to the temple.

He Tang pointed to the four words on the "battle table" and said to the emperor: "God, my country is also; Heart, Central Plains also: rice, holy also.

Taking rice from the heart is to seize our country and take the position of king. "The emperor said eagerly," What shall we do? " He Tang said, "It's okay, I have my own retreat." With that, he took a pen in his hand and added a pen to each of the four words. The original letter was returned to the sender.

Marshal Xiongnu, who led the troops, thought that the Central Plains did not dare to fight. When he opened it, he was shocked and retreated urgently.

It turned out that He Tang became "not necessarily dare to come" after adding one word each to "heavenly heart takes rice".

4. A joke with the wrong words

Once upon a time, there was a dude who was lazy and didn't study hard.

When I grow up, I often make jokes because I write typos.

One day his wife said she wanted to eat loquat.

He took a piece of paper from the table and wrote some words on it with a pen.

After writing, he asked the servant to buy loquat.

His wife took the newspaper and read it. She burst out laughing.

It turned out that it said "buy five catties of pipa".

Two of the five words are misspelled, and the word "loquat" is misspelled as "pipa".

After his wife saw it, she wrote a doggerel in the back:

Loquat is not this kind of pipa,

It's only my poor cultural level.

If the pipa can bear fruit,

The city is full of flutes and drums.

The guy blushed when he read his wife's poem.

The pronunciation of "loquat" and "pipa" is the same, both pronounce pípa, which is homophonic.

But "loquat" is a kind of fruit, and "pipa" is a stringed instrument, with completely different meanings and writing methods.

5. Literary inquisition

Literary inquisition refers to an unjust imprisonment in which the rulers persecuted intellectuals in the old society.

The emperor and people around him deliberately extracted words from the author's poems, and Luo Zhi became a crime. In serious cases, it will lead to fatal disasters, and all family members and relatives will be implicated. The so-called "killing nine families".

Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, was a commoner with low literacy. When he became emperor, he became cruel, suspicious and murderous.

He killed many people just because there was a sentence in the newspaper that he had a heart attack.

At that time, a man named Lin wrote a "Xie Zenglu Table" with the words "Do something to be constitutional", which was originally an idiom to praise the emperor.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and thought he was called a "thief" (the homonym of "Zuoze"), so he killed Lin.

Another man named Xu Yuan wrote a congratulatory letter containing "peaceful algae ornaments", which Zhu Yuanzhang thought was his "early loss of peace" ("peaceful algae ornaments"), so Xu Yuan naturally died.

The emperors in the early Qing Dynasty were very taboo about words like Hu, Man and Yi.

At that time, there was a poem "Doing the Duty of the World" in Nanshan Collection, which praised Gu and said that he was "the shame of fear".

There are many words in this collection that are considered "disrespectful" by the imperial court, so Dai Mingshi was killed.

There is a line in a poem written by Lv Liuliang: "Although the breeze is hard to blow me, the moon does not shine on people.". The words "Qing" and "Ming" are ambiguous, which can be understood as a cool breeze and a bright moon, and can also be understood as a clear wind and a bright moon. Therefore, Lv Liuliang was suspected of being dissatisfied with the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

There are two lines in Shen Deqian's poem about black peony: "If you get Zhu Fei primly, the different species will be king."

Among them, "seizing Zhu" uses the allusions in The Analects of Confucius, but Ming Chengzu's surname is Zhu, and "seizing Zhu" is said to be that the Qing Dynasty seized the world of the Ming Dynasty; The original meaning of "alien" is "alien species", but it is also interpreted as "a race different from our own" here, referring to Manchu.

So Emperor Qianlong was furious when he saw this poem. Shen Deqian was already dead, so he pulled his body out and whipped it to correct his heinous crime.

There were more literary prisons in the Qing Dynasty than in the Ming Dynasty, and the number of people killed was staggering.

According to records, the case of Zhuang in Ming History alone was "punished by more than a thousand people".

From Kangxi to Qianlong, there were more than one large-scale literary prison 10, and the number of people killed can be imagined.